You are going to use a photograph of the negative consequences of drug misuse as an inspiration for a piece of creative writing.
This is a piece of writing that will be marked by both Constable Andy and your classroom teacher.
Once you have examined all of the photos, choose one that you wish to write about and make a note of its name and number from the back.
Then you will have to start brainstorming your ideas for your story. Think about who, what, where, when, why and how. You will have to create names and locations as some of the pictures give you very limited information.
Next you will need to think about what style of writing you would like to do. You could choose,
A newspaper report, From the point of view of the main character, Diary notes, Look at it from an external perspective, A police report, A blog, Or any other style checked by Constable Andy or your Teacher.
Finally get writing. There is no minimum or maximum word count for this story but if you do not put in the effort you may be asked to start over again. Remember to base your story around the picture but use it to be creative.
You will have approximately two weeks to do this work as it needs to be ready to hand in at the beginning of the week starting Monday the 15th of September.
Wordsmyth – With a word list of over 50,000 words, an integrated thesaurus, and a clear, comprehensive style of displaying words, The Wordsmyth Dictionary/Thesaurus is a great site to bookmark!
Mighty Book – The mission of Mighty Book is to promote “Literacy, Creativity and the Power of Reading.” It offers online books, videos, music and more.
1)use white paper 2)use a red pen to write the word you want to remember 3)hold up the paper 4)focus on a corner 5)do not move your head 6)click your eyes 3 times(like a camera shutter) 7)do this for the 4 corners of the paper 8)remove the paper 9)keep your eyes closed while you spell the word aloud backwards and forwards 10)Test yourself again the next day
DARE Creative Writing Project
- Next you will need to think about what style of writing you would like to do. You could choose,
A newspaper report,From the point of view of the main character,
Diary notes,
Look at it from an external perspective,
A police report,
A blog,
Or any other style checked by Constable Andy or your Teacher.
Any questions - please ask your teacher or you can contact Constable Andy on andrew.napier@police.govt.nz
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http://www.wordhippo.com/
www.learnthat.org.
Persuasive Writing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZujQSGV8Wc
Reading and Writing Sites
A fabulous poetry site!!!!
http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
http://www.storiestogrowby.com/choose.php
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html
http://www.aesopfables.com/
http://www.storylineonline.net/
http://www.rif.org/kids/readingplanet/bookzone/read_aloud_stories.htm
http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html#aroundyourhome
- Reading Strategy Practice - Into the Book
- Good for all reading strategies eg. summarising, inferring, making connections, synthesising etc.Here are a mixture of literacy sites to help improve students' reading, writing and spelling!
Other sites:
Jack's Spelling Game
Spelling-word association
1)use white paper
2)use a red pen to write the word you want to remember
3)hold up the paper
4)focus on a corner
5)do not move your head
6)click your eyes 3 times(like a camera shutter)
7)do this for the 4 corners of the paper
8)remove the paper
9)keep your eyes closed while you spell the word aloud backwards and forwards
10)Test yourself again the next day